It is official, the Pistons will open the season on the road in the Mecca of basketball aka New Jersey in a rematch of the 2004 ECF.

They play the Seattle Thunder in their home opener 2 nights later.

The big news is this though......

Detroit has two national televised games on the schedule. The Detroit at Indiana matchup on March 30 is scheduled to be broadcast by ESPN, while NBA TV will broadcast the Detroit at Charlotte game on Dec. 27.

I heard this morning that the Miami has 34 nationally televised games this year. That is the maximum that the league allows.

That's going to be HUGE for Shavlik Randolph's Q-rating!

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34 games ??That's enough for each of the 29 other teams to get at least one televised game with them, but I suspect that at least 25 of those games are with the Lakers, Celtics, Magic, Bulls, Thunder, Nuggets and probably one with the Cavs which will probably broadcast on ESPN, with them running an encore presentation of The Decision at halftime.

But alas, after the first 30 nationally televised games, the novelty will wear off and no one will tune into the last four due to over exposure.